Mapping Cones on Manifolds
Organizers
Speaker
Li-Sheng Tseng
Time
Monday, December 25, 2023 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue
A3-4-101
Online
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(BIMSA)
Abstract
Many manifolds of interest are equipped with a geometrical structure specified by a distinguished closed form. We will motivate the usefulness of considering pairs of differential forms that are linked together by a map of the distinguished form. We will show how this lead to new notions of Morse theory and flat connections, and also novel Yang-Mills type functionals. This talk is based on joint works with David Clausen, Xiang Tang, and Jiawei Zhou.